4And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,
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And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept very sore.
Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.
Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-4)What a tribe Nehemiah was of does nowhere appear; but, if it be true (which we are told by the author of the Maccabees, 2 Macc. 1:18) that he offered sacrifice, we must conclude him to have been a priest. Observe, I. Nehemiah’s station at the court of Persia. We are here told that he was in Shushan the palace , or royal city, of the king of Persia, where the court was ordinarily kept (Neh. 1:1), a…
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